Over in the Post, Burt Hubbuch mentions that he thinks the Mets may increase prices in 2010. On Twitter last night he had mentioned that he was trying to get an answer out of them but they didn’t want to talk about.
The Post article says:
The club would only release a statement that said: “The Mets in the weeks ahead will be in direct communication with our season-ticket and ticket-plan holders regarding ticket prices for the 2010 season.”
The Mets aren’t that insane are they? Hopefully they will wait to see what the Yankees do…can you imagine the spin on “World Champion Yankees reduce prices” (even though we know that’s just spin) vs. the Mets raising prices?
If they really are desperate for cash, I suspect we’ll see a brand new uniform design for 2010 which will get guys like me and you to hand over $100 for updated shirts. Choose wisely Mets.
Story is here:
if the Mets are going to raise prices because they saw people coming out to the ballpark in groups of 39,000 or so, then they're completely off their rocker. remember how well they handled this communication last off-season and how much they ended up screwing their consumers.
now, if they're raising prices to subsidize the funding of the ballpark to make up for this season's lack of premium spenders, then that's different. they'll get a revolt.
if they're trying to make up for their losses in the Madoff thing (that they don't claim to have), well, that's an internal matter and I don't want to be part of funding that.
Unfortunately Tom Seavers quote on top of the page may apply when it comes to the Wilpons making a decision on this even after this disastrous year